The PET reference condemns him as a total communist, obviously

Because I am curious to see what people recommend

Recommend recent SF for a 13-year-old!

("Recent" seems to be less than 13 years old)

Washing machines: threat or menace?

[It] began to occur to me that the tech I was using was incredibly gendered. In the "male" sphere, of professional operations, offices, corporations, pop culture, businesses, the available technology was extremely high-level, better than anywhere I'd yet lived. In the "female" sphere, the home, domestic duties, daily chores, cleaning, heating, anything inside the walls of a house, it was on a level my grandmother would find familiar.

I had similar thoughts a while ago, which led to this.

Engines of Liberation by Jeremy Greenwood, Ananth Seshadri and Mehmet Yorukoglu1

I forgot the question I was going to ask: given the effect devices like washing machines arguably have on the ability of women to do stuff that isn't maintaining a household, why is the people currently waging war on women's reproductive rights have not gone after dish washers, vaccuum cleaners and washer/driers?

I think I will become a space industrialization pundit

Because I will be able to reuse the same basic points over and over for the rest of time without affecting the marketability of my essays:

The cislunar econosphere (part 1) by Ken Murphy

Take the references from this bit, for example:

What to do? What not to do? My favorite option is microgravity sciences. “Space Industrialization Opportunities” by Jernigan and Pentecost is a great academic introduction to the topic. A more contemporary introduction is “A World Without Gravity” from ESA. Ceramic metals. Glass metals. Foamed metals. Bizarre alloys impossible in the gravity well. Optics.

(I bet I could flip through G. Harry Stine's 1975 The Third Industrial Revolution and finds a section very much like this)

Title: Space industrialization opportunities
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Author: Jernigan, C. M.; Pentecost, E.
Abstract:
The current status of efforts to develop commercial space projects is hide
Collection: NASA
NASA Center: Marshall Space Flight Center
Publication Date: JAN 1, 1985

A WORLD WITHOUT GRAVITY is more recent: it's only 11 years old.